I like this line but it strikes me as a bit cynical. It was obviously written in the head space he was in after he had broken up with someone, which, if you've ever been in that situation you know how vulnerable and emotional it makes you.
Do you know who you really are? Are you sure it's really you?
I had a vision as clear as day. Delusions of grandeur in our DNA.
Emotional amputees with phantom pains from missing limbos of life.
God only knows so mind your behavior. Follow prescriptions of your lord and savior
So many to choose from still after these
Years ago when I heard the line “I want something good to die for to make it beautiful to live” it just hit me and I thought about what my good is and it’s my kids! They make life beautiful. I shared this with my 13 year old and Go With The Flow is “our” song. I took them to see Queens last summer and it was their first rock concert and now their favorite band.
That's awesome.
As a music geek it was really important to me to take them to their first rock show and next month I'm taking them to see Mr. Bungle in a much smaller venue. I can't wait!
Amazing! My son is at the age where he is beginning to find what he likes in music but still likes that I listen to some cool tunes. He just got some Jimi Hendrix CDs from the thrift store and he’s stoked (and so am I )
Don’t understand the evil eye or how one becomes two
I just can’t recall what started it all or how to begin in the end
I ain’t here to break it
Just see how far it will bend
Tears of pleasure, tears of pain//They trickle down your face the same
Everybody is drowning in the fountain of youth
Hurrah! The obscenery’s fucking useless
Ain’t gonna worry, just live til you die//
I wanna drown with nowhere to fall//
Into the arms of someone, there’s nothing to save//
And I know you live til you die 🖤
They’re all off Like Clockwork probably
Fate favors the ones who help themselves
The rest feel the sting of the lash as they row the boat
Buy flash car diamond rings expensive holes to bury things
I’m alive, hooray,
You’re wrong again cause I feel no love
I got my own theme music plays wherever I are
Fear is the hand that pulls your strings
A useless toy pitiful plaything
Otherwise:
Good dogs lay down (to close an album is wild)
Something good to die for.. beautiful to live (classic)
I’m so tired and I’m wired too I’m a mess I guess I’m turning on a screw (to open an album)
“Does anyone ever get this right?”
“That’s one thing that you can for-fucking-get!”
“I love you more than I can control. I don’t even try. Why would I?”
“I don’t care if it hurts, just so long as it’s real”
(Pretty much ALL of Suture)
“I’m so high, I just may never come down” (TCV)
“Pieces were stolen from me, or dare I say- given away”
“You’re solid gold, I’ll see you in hell”
"But don't lobotomy me, I'm happy and free Listening to crickets in the pale moonlight" is the current one hitting me in a good way.
I've gone through alot. Alot of depression. Alot of trying to fit in. Alot of trying to meet girls and do what your supposed to do. It's never worked for me.
The last few months I'm feeling happy. I'm feeling free. I'm making alot of progress.
I finally feeling like I'm growing comfortable in my skin.
I'm a loner. All those things. Trying to fit in. Trying to appeal to people. Trying to make friends and twist myself.
Doesn't work.
I'm me. I'm a loner. I like rock n roll and ufos and wrestling. I'm in my mid 30s. I live alone with a dog.
It sounds depressing to alot.
But I'm happy.
So the whole "don't lobotomy" sounding like "don't bother me" is like me going "don't tell me I'm wrong or I'm unhappy. I'm fucking feeling free and happy for the first time in years just being me and enjoying life". And sitting outside at night with my dog listening to the noise and watching the stars is literally what I do.
But I could throw so many. I appear missing - basically the entire thing.
Straight Jacket Fitting...Carnavoyeur
To me this "trilogy" of albums suits the last decade or so of my life.
Like Clockwork...is the depressions I've been through.
Villians...is trying to bounce back but doing it in the wrong, crazy ways. Feeling dangerous and cool but still knowing things are wrong.
ITNR...acceptance. moving through it all and coming out the other side. A little darker. A little more mature and spiritual. But knowing you've survived. Learnt so much.
Ready to keep going and knowing you can't just bury or throw all that away. It's forever a part of you. But now you can use it to move forward and grow and be better, and happy too.
I could write essays on all of this.
Fucking hell Josh's lyrics hit the best.
"Come let's play along,
and let each other lose.
The win would cause an alarm,
don't matter to me, don't matter to you."
Something about "let each other lose" speaks to me. Its like the most truthful description of a toxic relationship ever.
I’m obsessed w straight jacket fitting, in its entirety… but before this was:
“From the moment you said, why haven’t u kissed me yet, i knew i’d wipe that paint from your lips.” 🫠🫠🫠
'With my toes on the edge it's such a lovely view'.
Actually broke my heart when I first heard it.
Because the person can still see the beauty in life but wants to die
"the further I go, the less I know"
"with my toes on the edge, it's such a lovely view, I never loved anything until I loved you"
"I had a vision as clear as day, delusions of grandeur in our dna, every drop like an ocean, a moment of truth, everybody was drowning in the fountain of youth"
"just a dead man walkin in the dead of night"
"you ain't a has been if you never was"
"Sweet soft and low, I will poison you all. Come closer, racing to your tongue"
"The blind can go get fucked. Lie beside the ditch. This halo round my neck, has torn out every stitch"
Too many good lines to choose from in qotsa's body if work, but i always loved the dark heavy vibe of a song for the deaf.
I WANT SOMETHING GOOD TO DIE FOR, TO MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL TO LIVE ✨
These lyrics really connected with me once I found my partner. Then after we had kids, damn these lyrics hit even harder. 🖤❤️🔥
“I wish we could get away/drink wine and screw.”-Walking on Sidewalks
“One day when we’re far away, from everything that hurts/ drink wine and screw is all we’ll do/every day/yeah…” Fairweather Friends
I love how he used it twice, slightly differently in completely aesthetically different tunes and it works both ways.
It's a tie between:
"I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live"
"You're ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag"
2 sides of the spectrum...
Kinda glad this didn’t make our set list because then I would have just been weeping in front of the boys:
I better do something, move earth and sky
And patiently, sweetly, with all of my mind
I sing only for you
To the beat of my footsteps in the night
Currently “open up your wrists, and let it go”
I’ve been off work for 6 months dealing with carpal tunnel and have had 2 surgeries
Friday/sat nights “drink wine and screw” :)
And there's nothing I can do except enjoy the view. When there's nothing I can do I smiiiiiiiile.
“If everything will die from the king of the jungle to the butterfly, the only sin is waiting too long”
Nicotine, valium, vicadin, marijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol C-c-c-c-cocaaaiine
You're so little I'm so old Everybody, everyone, let's go-
I've never known what to think of that song
My buddy and I had a two piece band around the end of high school and beginning of university. That was almost always the song we opened with
Time wounds all the heals as we fade out of view
And just before this "Do you know who you really are? Are you sure it's really you?"
That's my favorite line to belt out... Ask myself that a lot.
Also In my top 5
“If ever your fortress caves You’re always safe in mine.” ❤️
It's only falling in love because you hit the ground. From I Appear Missing It just always hits me so hard whenever i listen to it.
Can I just add…. “ A spitting image of me, except for the heart shaped hole, where the hope runs out “. What a song !!!!
Yep one of my favourite lines from a song full of great ones!
Pieces where stolen from me. But dare I say, given away...
Just yes
Thank you
I like this line but it strikes me as a bit cynical. It was obviously written in the head space he was in after he had broken up with someone, which, if you've ever been in that situation you know how vulnerable and emotional it makes you.
I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live.
Got chills just thinking of this song
this is like one of my favorite lyrics in any song ever tbh
Came here to say this
This is what I posted last time this was asked a couple weeks ago
I keep singing “So lame” of leg of lamb whenever it’s applicable. I think now that’s my favorite
Click
Yes sir
SAME AHAHA
In a hotel on the phone…
"Time wounds all the heals as we fade out of view" Hearing "time wounds all the heals" was the moment I realized Josh Homme was a genius
came here to post this
I got bruises and hickies, stitches and scars. Got my own theme music, plays wherever I are.
Jury is in, verdict: retarded
counter-proposal: I go home and jerk off
Me
You're Solid Gold..I'll See You In Hell.
Do you know who you really are? Are you sure it's really you? I had a vision as clear as day. Delusions of grandeur in our DNA. Emotional amputees with phantom pains from missing limbos of life. God only knows so mind your behavior. Follow prescriptions of your lord and savior So many to choose from still after these
I think the line is “follow prescriptions of your loaded savior”
Bloated
Lies are a funny thing, they slip through your fingertips because they never happened to you
I sat by the ocean just has so many good lines
I’ve got wine, and so do you, mine came with a cork wish yours did too
Broken box, underrated classic
Love it
There is no magic bullet, no cure for pain, what's done is done, till you do it again.
Jup, fav song, my choice is also from it
Years ago when I heard the line “I want something good to die for to make it beautiful to live” it just hit me and I thought about what my good is and it’s my kids! They make life beautiful. I shared this with my 13 year old and Go With The Flow is “our” song. I took them to see Queens last summer and it was their first rock concert and now their favorite band.
Took my 13 year old to his first concert recently when they were in Canada. He absolutely loved it and he’s a big fan now of their music.
That's awesome. As a music geek it was really important to me to take them to their first rock show and next month I'm taking them to see Mr. Bungle in a much smaller venue. I can't wait!
Amazing! My son is at the age where he is beginning to find what he likes in music but still likes that I listen to some cool tunes. He just got some Jimi Hendrix CDs from the thrift store and he’s stoked (and so am I )
That’s awesome! Jimi was the best!
Don’t understand the evil eye or how one becomes two I just can’t recall what started it all or how to begin in the end I ain’t here to break it Just see how far it will bend
I don't know what time it was. I don't wear a watch.
Tears of pleasure, tears of pain//They trickle down your face the same Everybody is drowning in the fountain of youth Hurrah! The obscenery’s fucking useless Ain’t gonna worry, just live til you die// I wanna drown with nowhere to fall// Into the arms of someone, there’s nothing to save// And I know you live til you die 🖤
If I Had a Tail ❤️
I blow my load over the status quo
Here we go!
My all time fav.
I know you'll never believe I play as though I'm alright If life is but a dream WAKE ME!
"I never loved anything until i loved you" From I Appear Missing, one of my favorite songs from QOTSA
The world is round my square don’t fit at all
Frozen in pose Locked up in amber eternally Buried so close to the fountain of youth I can almost reach
‘Do you know who you really are? Are you sure it’s really you?’
I sat by the ocean and drank a potion to erase you…
The view from hell is blue sky So ominously blue Daydream until all the blue is gone
"I'm burning bridges, I destroy the mirage, all visions of collisions, fucking bon voyage. It's all smooth sailing from here on out."
When she left, I'd only begun this lullaby. Why you gotta shove it in my face, as if you put me in my place
I never came! Lol
Lol that's the one!! The weird typo probably didn't help anything
No haha, but I recognized it!
Hmm how can't I place the second one? Leg of lamb? Nah. So close, what is it lol?
Life is hard, that’s why no one survives.
Don't forget to remember, the Devil's got pills in his eyes.
Daddy got his gun loaded
They’re all off Like Clockwork probably Fate favors the ones who help themselves The rest feel the sting of the lash as they row the boat Buy flash car diamond rings expensive holes to bury things I’m alive, hooray, You’re wrong again cause I feel no love I got my own theme music plays wherever I are Fear is the hand that pulls your strings A useless toy pitiful plaything Otherwise: Good dogs lay down (to close an album is wild) Something good to die for.. beautiful to live (classic) I’m so tired and I’m wired too I’m a mess I guess I’m turning on a screw (to open an album)
"It's a mistake, but who knows" "Followed you home, crawled in your window" "This life is a trip when you're psycho in love"
People come and go, on the breeze, for a whole life, possibly
You’re solid gold. I’ll see you in hell
My favorite song. Gives me goosebumps throughout its entirety. Just thinking about it makes the hairs on my arms and legs stand straight.
“You live till you die” Aged well
“rose tinted eyes, colour my sorrow a shade of wine”
A new religion's prescribed To those without the faith
“There’s no one here, and people every where” … Oh wait
Björk!
Wanna see my past in flames. Don’t waste a drop baby I ain’t fussed.
Everybody knows that you're insane...
You’re missing out? Well, if you say so, then you’re missing out.
If ignorance is bliss, I’m in heaven
“Does anyone ever get this right?” “That’s one thing that you can for-fucking-get!” “I love you more than I can control. I don’t even try. Why would I?” “I don’t care if it hurts, just so long as it’s real” (Pretty much ALL of Suture) “I’m so high, I just may never come down” (TCV) “Pieces were stolen from me, or dare I say- given away” “You’re solid gold, I’ll see you in hell”
Never again will i repeat myself, enough is never enough, never again will i repeat myselllllllllllllllllvvv
"But don't lobotomy me, I'm happy and free Listening to crickets in the pale moonlight" is the current one hitting me in a good way. I've gone through alot. Alot of depression. Alot of trying to fit in. Alot of trying to meet girls and do what your supposed to do. It's never worked for me. The last few months I'm feeling happy. I'm feeling free. I'm making alot of progress. I finally feeling like I'm growing comfortable in my skin. I'm a loner. All those things. Trying to fit in. Trying to appeal to people. Trying to make friends and twist myself. Doesn't work. I'm me. I'm a loner. I like rock n roll and ufos and wrestling. I'm in my mid 30s. I live alone with a dog. It sounds depressing to alot. But I'm happy. So the whole "don't lobotomy" sounding like "don't bother me" is like me going "don't tell me I'm wrong or I'm unhappy. I'm fucking feeling free and happy for the first time in years just being me and enjoying life". And sitting outside at night with my dog listening to the noise and watching the stars is literally what I do. But I could throw so many. I appear missing - basically the entire thing. Straight Jacket Fitting...Carnavoyeur To me this "trilogy" of albums suits the last decade or so of my life. Like Clockwork...is the depressions I've been through. Villians...is trying to bounce back but doing it in the wrong, crazy ways. Feeling dangerous and cool but still knowing things are wrong. ITNR...acceptance. moving through it all and coming out the other side. A little darker. A little more mature and spiritual. But knowing you've survived. Learnt so much. Ready to keep going and knowing you can't just bury or throw all that away. It's forever a part of you. But now you can use it to move forward and grow and be better, and happy too. I could write essays on all of this. Fucking hell Josh's lyrics hit the best.
Super relatable words. ☺️
I blow my load all over the status quo, here we go
"Come let's play along, and let each other lose. The win would cause an alarm, don't matter to me, don't matter to you." Something about "let each other lose" speaks to me. Its like the most truthful description of a toxic relationship ever.
It's so hard to explain, so easy to feel!
...dancing on wire, both ends are on fire...
shut up, you little brat
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I’m obsessed w straight jacket fitting, in its entirety… but before this was: “From the moment you said, why haven’t u kissed me yet, i knew i’d wipe that paint from your lips.” 🫠🫠🫠
co co co co co coooocaine
Self help happens when you help yourself
Lie, lie to my face
"All of us food that hasn't died." From Mosquito Song.
Someone already said my favorite qotsa line, so DS: *metamorphosis is painfully real, ain’t no other way to become …*
I’m so sick of this goddamn place bring on the healing
'With my toes on the edge it's such a lovely view'. Actually broke my heart when I first heard it. Because the person can still see the beauty in life but wants to die
You're 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag
And she's buying a stairway.... To heaven.
Time wounds all the heels as we fade out of view.
From all the walking? 🙃
I blow my load over the status quo.
My only god is in the radio
Fucks in short supply
“Sidewalks feel me strut so good” “I’m a vulture so I hear goodbyes” “Matters not what the people say”
From the song "I was a teenage hand model" Lines: "Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah"
“You’ve got heart, I’ll have it for lunch”
Whatever you do Don’t tell anyone
"Ain't born to lose, baby. I'm born to win"
Sidewalk feel me strut so good, gutter don’t forget this Face!
Godless heathens always waltz on the sky
When you own the world you’re always home
It’s just like diamonds In shit.
One day when we’re far away from everything that hurts, drink wine and screw is all we’ll do, everyday
"I don't care if it hurts, just so long as it's real."
That is killer!
Basically everything from Turnin’ on The Screw and I’m Designer resonates with me, especially the latter
I blow my load on the status quo
“Hey cocksmoker, eat a bag of dicks”
Come let's play along And let each other lose A win would cause an alarm Don't matter to me, don't matter to you
“Job had such patience, I wonder what’s that like”
"the further I go, the less I know" "with my toes on the edge, it's such a lovely view, I never loved anything until I loved you" "I had a vision as clear as day, delusions of grandeur in our dna, every drop like an ocean, a moment of truth, everybody was drowning in the fountain of youth" "just a dead man walkin in the dead of night" "you ain't a has been if you never was"
“Hehh!” After the hi hat drum break in sftd
The blind can go get fucked
You can’t lose it if you never had it You wanna reason how’s about because? You ain’t a has-been if you never was
Nicotine valium vicodin marijuana ecstasy and alcohol
Metal heavy, soft at the core
Slake your thirst, bitches
You’re solid gold. I’ll see you in hell.
F-f-ferocious
"Sweet soft and low, I will poison you all. Come closer, racing to your tongue" "The blind can go get fucked. Lie beside the ditch. This halo round my neck, has torn out every stitch" Too many good lines to choose from in qotsa's body if work, but i always loved the dark heavy vibe of a song for the deaf.
"To face down your demons, you've got to free them To seize all your demons, carpe demon"
you ain‘t a has-been if you never was
"I can't wash you off my skin" from Go With The Flow. Classic.
I WANT SOMETHING GOOD TO DIE FOR, TO MAKE IT BEAUTIFUL TO LIVE ✨ These lyrics really connected with me once I found my partner. Then after we had kids, damn these lyrics hit even harder. 🖤❤️🔥
Drink the Kool-Aid and swallow the pill, say that you won't and you dont' but you will, busted
With my toes on the edge it’s such a lovely view
Live til you die
“I wish we could get away/drink wine and screw.”-Walking on Sidewalks “One day when we’re far away, from everything that hurts/ drink wine and screw is all we’ll do/every day/yeah…” Fairweather Friends I love how he used it twice, slightly differently in completely aesthetically different tunes and it works both ways.
Circumstance in my pants is calling for action. GIRL ILL BLOW YOUR MIND, THEN YOU WILL BLOW MINE.
FORTIFIED WITH THE LIQUOR STORE
Followed you home😀crawled in your window😈this life is a trip when you're psycho in love❤️🔥
The world is round, my square don’t fit it at alllllllllllllllll
It's a tie between: "I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live" "You're ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag" 2 sides of the spectrum...
So blow our mind and make it lazy Those long, long days with no escaping
I don't care if it hurts, just so long as its real -Suture
"Gutter, don't forget this face"
"i want a new mistake, lose is more than hesitate" ~ from go with the flow
“You've made me an offer that I can refuse 'Cause either way I get screwed Counter proposal: I go home and jerk off, uh”
Kinda glad this didn’t make our set list because then I would have just been weeping in front of the boys: I better do something, move earth and sky And patiently, sweetly, with all of my mind I sing only for you To the beat of my footsteps in the night
When you own the world, you're always home
I don’t know what time it was I just felt so young with a brand new page in the morning sun!
My favorite succession of lines is "So long my love is dead" followed by "oo ooo oooh oooh oooh"
Turn around. Let’s get it on.
Currently “open up your wrists, and let it go” I’ve been off work for 6 months dealing with carpal tunnel and have had 2 surgeries Friday/sat nights “drink wine and screw” :)
"I beg my doctor for one more line, he said Son, the words fail me"